When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

1556 (-) Jezuït Ignatius Inigo Lopez De Loyola dies of chronic stomach ailments at the age of 64 in Rome, Italy.
1784 (-) Philosopher and encyclopedist Denis Diderot dies of emphysema at the age of 70 in Langres, France.
1875 (-) 17th president of the USA Andrew Johnson dies of a stroke at the age of 66 in Greeneville, Tennessee, USA.
1886 (-) Composer Franz Ferenc Liszt dies of pneumonia at the age of 74 in Bayreuth, Austria.
1901 (+) Artist and Art Brut-pioneer Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet is born in Le Havre, France.
1914 (-) Socialist leader Jean Léon Auguste Marie Joseph Jaurès is shot dead by extremist Robert Villain at the age of 54 in Paris, Montmartre, café Le Croissant, France.
1914 (+) Actor and filmmaker Louis De Funès aka FuFu, is born in Courbevoie, France.
1935 (+) Serial Killer Fritz Honka is born in Leipzig, Germany.
1940 (-) Punjabi Revolutionary Udham Singh originally Sher Singh Jammu aka Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1943 (-) Abortionist Marie-Louise Giraud is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 39 in Paris, France.
She was convicted of performing 26 illegal abortions and the last woman axecuted in France.
1943 (+) Girlfriend of Spree Killer Charles Starkweather Caril Ann Fugate is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
1944 (+) Actress Geraldine Chaplin is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.
1944 (-) Writer and pilot Marie Antoine Roger De Saint-Exupéry is lost without a trace flying his Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft at the age of 44 in Corsica, France.
1949 (-) Laura Showalter is bludgeoned to death by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 57 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
1952 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion member Verena Becker is born in Berlin, Wilmersdorf, Germany.
1954 (-) Murderer Bernard J. Obrien is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.

1964 (-) Musician Jim James Travis Reeves dies in a Beechcraft "Debonair" aircraft crash at the age of 40 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.Reeves was disoriented by "Pilot's Vertigo" and actually flying upside down when he tried to take the plane up to avoid a thunderstorm. Instead the plane plunged with its nose in the ground.
1966 (-) Mrs Whitman is stabbed to death by Charles Whitman aka The Man on the Tower, in Austin, Texas, USA.
1968 (-) Brian Howe is mutilated and strangled by Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, at the age of 3 in Newcastle, Tin Lizzie wasteland, United Kingdom.
1969 (-) Gary Hinman is stabbed to death by The Manson Family at the age of 34 in California, USA.
1973 (x) 89 Die in Delta Airlines DC-9 crash in Boston, Logan Airport, Massachussets, USA.
1975 (-) John Butkovitch is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 17 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
1977 (-) Stacy Moskowitz is shot by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
In the same event Robert Violante was also shot, he survived but remained blind.
1979 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is sentenced to death in Miami, Florida, USA.
1980 (x) 28-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Knut Detlef Folkerts is sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of Siegfried Buback in Stuttgart, Germany.
1981 (x) 32-year-old Serial Rapist Frederick ‘Kevin’ Coe aka The Spokane Rapist, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Spokane, Washington, USA.
1982 (x) 44 yougsters Die in autobus collision and fire in Beaune, France.
1992 (x) 113 Die in Thai Airways International Airbus 310-300 crash in Ghyangphedi, Nepal.
1993 (-) Fifth King of Belgium Boudewijn I originally Boudewijn Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, dies of heart failure at the age of 62 in Motril, Villa Astrid, Andalusia, Spain.

Monday, July 30, 2012

1818 (+) Writer Emily Jane Brontë is born in Thornton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
1853 (+) Mass murderer of his first wife and four children and second wife Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston, is born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
1858 (-) Murderer James Kelly is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New York, USA.
1863 (+) Automobile manufacterer Henry Ford is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
1898 (+) Artist Henry Spencer Moore is born in Castleford, Yorks, United Kingdom.
1898 (-) First Chancellor of the German Reich Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck dies of gangrene at the age of 83 in Friedrichsruh, Germany.
1915 (-) Racketeer and murderer Charles Becker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in New York, Sing Sing prison, New York, USA.
1920 (-) Last Official Executioner of Sweden Albert Gustaf Anders Dahlman dies at the age of 72 in Stockholm, Sweden.
1929 (-) Emma Gross is strangled by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 35 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1937 (-) Womanizer and reverend Harold Francis Davidson aka The Prostitutes’ Padre, dies of a broken neck at the age of 62 in Skegness, Cottage Hospital, United Kingdom.
He was attacked by a lion while acting as a modern ‘Daniël in the Lion’s Den’ two days before.
1939 (+) Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich is born in Kingston, New Jersey, USA.
1941 (+) Musician Paul Anka is born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1947 (+) Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is born in Graz, Austria.
1960 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 8-year-old boy in La Blinerie, Jersey.
1967 (-) Industrialist Alfried Felix Alwyn Von Bohlen und Halbach Krupp dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1969 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac writes a 3-part cipher and letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald newspapers in California, USA.
1969 (x) Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, is arrested in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
1971 (x) 22-year-old Sergeant Josjima Itsjikawa kills 162 people by hitting an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 with his Japanese Air Force Sabre F-86 Jet in Morioka, Japan.
He escaped by using his ejector-seat.
1975 (x) 62-year-old Union-leader Jimmy Hoffa is abducted from a parking lot and never seen again in Bloomfield Hills, Machus Red Fox restaurant, Michigan, USA.
1977 (-) Director of the Dresdner bank, Jürgen Ponto is shot dead by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 53 in Oberursel, Germany.
The action was taken by Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Susanne Albrecht.
1978 (x) 29-year-old Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt and Gary Tison escape from prison with the help of Tison's three sons and go on a killing spree that left six dead in Arizona, USA.
1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, starts his performance "Illegal" in Antwerpen, ICC, Antwerp, Belgium.
It lasted four days.
1981 (-) Louise Chartrand is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 17 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.
1985 (-) Minister of science, technology and energy, Damrong Lathapipat commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 52 in Thailand.
1985 (-) Official executioner André Obrecht dies at the age of 86 in Nice, France.
1992 (-) Triple Murderer William Andrews aka The Hi-Fi Murderer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Draper State Prison, Utah, USA.
1993 (-) Murderer Danny Harris is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2001 (x) 32-year-old The First Western Female Suicide Bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam, marries 28-year-old Issam Goris in Charleroi, Al Hidaya Mosque, Belgium.

2007 (-) Filmmaker Ingmar Ernst Bergmann dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Faarö, Sweden.
2007 (-) Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni dies at the age of 94 in Rome, Italy.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

1099 (-) 159th Pope Urbanus II originally Otho of Lagery aka The Blessed, dies at the age of 57 in Rome, Italy.
1644 (-) 235th Pope Urbanus VIII originally Maffeo Barberini, dies at the age of 76 in Rome, Italy.
1856 (-) Composer Robert Alexander Schumann dies of heart-failure at the age of 46 in Endenich, Germany.
1879 (-) Murderess Kate Webster aka Catherine Lawler, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1883 (+) Fascist leader Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce, is born in Forli, Predappio, Italy.
1890 (-) Artist Vincent Van Gogh commits suicide by a shot in the stomach at the age of 37 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
He shot himself two days earlier and lingered on for two days in de Hotel de Ravoux
1900 (-) King Umberto I is shot dead by American anarchist Gaetano Bresci at the age of 56 in Monza, Italy.
1901 (-) Murderer George Middleton is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Clinton Prison, New York, USA.
He needs 4 blows in 12 minutes time.
1905 (+) Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld is born in Jönköping, Sweden.
1905 (+) Actress Thelma Alice Todd aka The Bohemian Girl, is born in Lawrence, Massachussets, USA.
1905 (+) Actress Clara Gordon Bow aka The It Girl, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1914 (+) Inventor of the ‘bic’, Marcel Bich is born in Torino, Italy.
1923 (+) Sound pioneer Jim James Marshall aka The Father of Loud, is born in United Kingdom.
1924 (+) Murder victim Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, is born in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
1938 (-) Mary Carpenter dies of spontaneous human combustion in Norfolk, United Kingdom.
She was holidaying on a cabin cruiser on the Norfolk Broads.
1947 (-) Murderer Cecil Tate is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
1947 (-) Murderer George F. Gumtow is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
1950 (-) Murderer Angel B. Serna is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1963 (+) Murderer Jack Wade Clark is born in Texas, USA.

1974 (-) Musician Cass ‘Mama’ Elliot originally Ellen Naomi Cohen, dies of heart failure at the age of 32 in London, Mayfair, 9 Curzon Place #12, United Kingdom.
There is an urban legend that she choked to death in a ham sandwich. The Who drummer Keith Moon died in the same flat four years later.
1976 (-) Donna Lauria is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, at the age of 18 in the Bronx, New York, USA.
In the same event 19-year-old Jody Valenti is also shot, but he survived.
1979 (-) Philosopher Herbert Marcuse dies of a stroke at the age of 81 in Sternberg, Germany.
1981 (x) 20-year-old Princess Diana Frances Spencer aka Lady Di, marries Prince Charles in London, St. Paul’s Cathedral, United Kingdom.
1982 (-) Michelle Steele is abducted, raped and asphyxiated by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 11 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.
1983 (-) Filmmaker Luis Bunuel aka Le Chien Andalou, dies at the age of 83 in Mexico City, Mexico.
1983 (-) Actor David James Graham Niven dies of Lou Gehrig's Disease at the age of 73 in Chateu d'Oex, Switzerland.
1984 (-) Pia Rontini is shot dead and mutilated by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 18 in Florence, Vicchio, Italy.
Her left breast and pubis had been removed.
1987 (-) Wanja Bilowetzki is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 12 in Saporosje, Ukraïne, Russia.
1990 (-) Viktor Petrow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 13 in Rostow, Botanic Garden, Russia.
1993 (x) 73-year-old John Demjanjuk aka Iwan The Terrible, is ruled innocent of being a Nazi camp-commander of Treblinka by the High Court in Israël.
1997 (-) Murderer Bobby West is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1999 (-) Mass murderer Mark O. Barton commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 44 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
He shot nine people and wounded another thirteen in Piedmont Avenue business district after murdering his wife and two children.
2000 (-) Serial Killer Nestor Pirotte dies of a stroke at the age of 67 in Jamioulx, Charleroi, Belgium.
He killed 7 people, was sentenced to death twice and sentenced to a mental hospital for life three times.
2007 (-) Television personality Tom Thomas James Snyder dies of complications of leukemia at the age of 71 in San Francisco, California, USA.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

1332 (x) 13-year-old King Jean II aka le Bon, marries 17-year-old Bonne of Luxemburg in France.
1540 (x) 49-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his fifth wife Katherine Howard in Oatlands Palace, Surrey, United Kingdom.
He divorced his previous wife less than 20 days earlier.
1540 (-) First Earl of Essex Thomas Cromwell is executed by beheading at the age of 55 in London, England.
After the execution his head was boiled and placed on a spike of London Bridge.
1655 (-) Poet and duellist Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac presumably dies due to injuries suffered when a wooden beam fell upon him a year earlier at the age of 36 in Paris, Sannois, France.
1741 (-) Composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi dies of internal fire or asthma at the age of 54 in Venice, Italy.
1750 (-) Composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies of a fever attack at the age of 65 in Leipzig, Germany.
1794 (-) Leader of the French Revolution Maximilian François Marie Isidore de Robespierre is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 36 in Paris, Place de la Concorde, France.
1865 (-) Multiple murderer Dr. Edward William Pritchard is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Glasgow Green, Saltmarket, Scotland, United Kingdom.
It was the last public hanging in Scotland, for which about 100.000 people showed up.
1887 (+) Artist Marcel Duchamp is born in Blainville-Crevon, France.
1902 (+) Philosopher Karl Raimund Popper is born in Vienna, Austria.
1907 (+) Inventor Earl Silas Tupper is born in Berlin, New Hampshire, USA.
1909 (+) Writer Malcolm Clarence Lowry known for “Under the Volcano”, is born in New Brighton, Merseyside, United Kingdom.
1909 (+) Founder of Burda magazine Aenne Burda originally Anna Magdalene Lemminger, is born in Offenburg, Germany.
1911 (-) Murderer Alejandro Gallego is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1927 (+) Serial Killer Larry Lawrence Singleton is born in Florida, USA.
1929 (+) First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy originally Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie, is born in Southhampton, New York, USA.

1945 (x) 14 die when the Old John Feather Merchant, a US B-25 bomber, flewn by 27-year-old lieutenant-colonel William Franklin Smith Jr crashes into the Empire State building in New York, New York, USA.
1948 (+) Actress Sally Ann Struthers is born in Portland, Oregon, USA.
1948 (x) Over 200 Die in IG Farben Works explosion in Ludwigshaven, Germany.
1966 (x) 63-year-old Marie Couderc commits suicide by a shot through the head in a house previously owned by Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, in Montford l’Amaury, France.
1967 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany.
1974 (-) Joey Kallinger is drowned by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, at the age of 14 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.Joseph and his other son Michael were supposedly going to take some pictures of him, chained to a ladder in a flooded basement.
1975 (x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, is sentenced to death in Katowice, Poland.
1976 (-) Child murderer Christian Ranucci is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 22 in Marseille, Baumettes Prison, France.
1982 (-) Kerry Heiss is abducted by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 10 in St. Joseph, East Hills shopping centre, Missouri, USA.
She escaped.
1986 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, is arrested in London, Southwark, Keyworth House, United Kingdom.
1998 (-) Maria Goetz is strangled by Richard Arinaitwe at the age of 35 in Kampala, Uganda.
2005 (-) Murderer David Aaron Martinez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2010 (x) 152 Die in Blue Airline Flight ED202 Airbus 321 crash in Islamabad, Pakistan.
2010 (-) Mass murderer Kazuo Shinozawa is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
He burned six women to death in a jewellery shop robbery in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Province in 2000.
2010 (-) Double murderer Hidenori Ogata is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

1471 (-) 211th Pope Paul II originally Pietro Barbo, dies at the age of 54 in Rome, Italy.
1856 (+) Writer George Bernard Shaw is born in Dublin, Ireland.
1875 (+) Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung is born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Germany.
1891 (x) 38-year-old Mass murderer of his first wife and four children and second wife Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston, kills his wife Marie and four children 9-year-old Bertha, 7-year-old Marie, 5-year-old Sidney and 18-month-old Leala in Rainhill, Dinham Villa, Merseyside, United Kingdom.
1894 (+) Writer Aldous Leonard Huxley is born in Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom.
1896 (+) Actor Charles Butterworth is born in South Bend, Indiana, USA.
1908 (+) President of Chile Salvador Isabelino Gossens Allende is born in ValparaIso, Chile.
1925 (-) Logician Gottlob Friedrich Ludwig Frege dies at the age of 76 in Bad Kleinen, Germany.
1928 (+) Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is born in the Bronx, New York, USA.
1931 (+) Founder of Black Liberation group MOVE John Africa originally Vincent Leaphart, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1940 (-) Double murderer Claude Edward Cline is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 46 in Oregon, USA.
1940 (+) Mary Jo Kopechne is born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.
1943 (+) Rolling Stone Mick Jagger is born in Dartford, United Kingdom.
1952 (-) Activist Eva Maria Duarte Peron aka Evita, dies of cancer at the age of 33 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1952 (-) Joseph Brock is shot dead by Gerhard Puff at the age of 44 in New York, New York, USA.
1959 (-) Manuela Knodt is strangled and butchered by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 16 in Bredeney, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1959 (+) Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, is born in Putnam, Connecticut, USA.
1960 (-) Murderer Georges Rapin aka Monsieur Bill, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 23 in Paris, Prison de la Sante, France.
1964 (+) Bankrobber and Cop Killer Vincent Edward Cooks is born in Texas, USA.
1965 (-) Eleonora G. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 38 in Lagisza, Poland.
1971 (-) Photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus commits suicide by slashing her wrists at the age of 48 in New York, Greenwich Village, New York, USA.
1972 (-) Lynn Derrick is presumably strangled by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.
1974 (-) Alice Curtis is robbed and choked to death by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, at the age of 65 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

1492 (-) 213th Pope Innocentus VIII originally Giovanni Battista Cybo, dies at the age of 60 in Rome, Italy.
On his deathbed he was given three blood transfusions from young boys, who also died.
1797 (x) 38-year-old Admiral Horatio Nelson loses his arm in the battle during a failed siege and conquest of Santa Cruz in Tenerife, Spain.
1894 (+) Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World, is born in Obljaj, Yugoslavia.
1905 (+) Writer Elias Canetti is born in Rutschuk, Bulgaria.
1909 (x) 37-year-old Aircraft pioneer Louis Blériot becomes the first man to fly from Calais, France to Dover in United Kingdom.
1926 (x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is elected as mayor in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, France.
1932 (-) Writer Cyriel Cyrillus Gustave Emile Buysse dies at the age of 72 in Afsnee, Belgium.
1934 (-) Chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss is shot dead by an SS-commando in an attempted Coup d'Etat to take over Austria at the age of 41 in Vienna, Austria.
1934 (+) Jazz composer Don Ellis is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He composed the soundtrack for the movie 'The Deadly Tower', about Charles Whitman.
1941 (-) Serial Killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 28 in Berlin, Plötzensee, Germany.
1941 (+) Black Emmett Louis Till aka Bobo, is born in Webb, Mississippi, USA.
1952 (+) Murderer Harold McQueen is born in Kentucky, USA.
1959 (+) Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, is born in Zhytomyr, Ukraïne, Russia.
1961 (-) Murderer Samuel McLaughlin is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Belfast, Ireland.

1967 (x) 134 Die in USS Forrestal aircraft carrier fire in Vietnam.
1969 (-) Artist Otto Dix dies of a stroke at the age of 77 in Singen, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
1970 (x) Bomb attack by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the United States Army Base in San Francisco, The Presidio, California, USA.
It was in remembrance of the 11th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
1973 (-) Charles Cobble is tortured, strangled and shot dead by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 17 in Houston, Texas, USA.
1975 (+) The first test-tube baby Louise Joy Brown is born in Oldham General Hospital, United Kingdom.
1975 (-) The oldest surviving Algonquin Indian, Paul Caesar dies at the age of 112 in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada.
1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 3" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.
1981 (-) Sigrun is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1982 (-) Debra Bonner is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 23 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1982 (-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.
1986 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Bobby Joe Long aka Bound to Die, is sentenced to death for the Simms murder in Hillsborough County, Florida, USA.
2000 (x) 117 Die in Air France Flight 4590 Concorde crash in Gonesse, France.
2003 (-) Filmmaker John Richard Schlesinger dies at the age of 77 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
He had been on a life-support system after a stroke in december 2000.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

1735 (-) Murderess Patience Boston is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Falmouth, Maine, USA.
1802 (+) Writer Alexandre Dumas originally Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, is born in Villers-Cotterêts, France.
1862 (-) 8th president of the USA Martin Van Buren dies of bronchial asthma and heart failure at the age of 79 in Kinderhook, New York, USA.
1864 (+) Dramatist Frank Benjamin Franklin Wedekind is born in Hannover, Germany.
1897 (+) Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart is born in Atchison, Kansas, USA.
1909 (+) Serial Killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, is born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
1914 (x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, France.
1915 (x) 845 Die in S.S. Eastland capsizing in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1941 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, is sentenced to death in Berlin, Germany.
1944 (+) Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Jan-Carl Raspe is born in Berlin, Germany.
1976 (-) Gangster John Salanitro dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in the USA.

1980 (-) Actor Peter Richard Henry Sellers aka The Pink Panther, dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in London, Dorchester Hotel, United Kingdom.
1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 2" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.
1985 (x) 81 Die in DC-6 crash in Colombia.
1991 (-) Murderer Albert Clozza is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Virginia, USA.
1991 (-) Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Miami, Florida, USA.
2003 (-) Triple murderer Allen Wayne Janecka is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2007 (-) Behavioral Therapist Albert Ellis dies of natural causes at the age of 93 in New York, New York, USA.
2010 (-) Snooker Legend Alex Gordon Higgins aka Hurricane, dies of starvation at the age of 61 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.Higgins lost his teeth after intensive radiotherapy used to treat his throat cancer and had been living on liquid food, often Guinnes, for the last years of his life.
2010 (-) ALDI founder Theodor Paul Albrecht dies at the age of 88 in Essen, Alfrid Krupp Hospital, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Monday, July 23, 2012

1649 (+) 243rd Pope Clementius XI originally Giovanni Francesco Albani, is born in Urbino, Italy.
1757 (-) Composer Domenico Giuseppe Scarlatti dies at the age of 71 in Madrid, Spain.
1775 (+) Villain and later Chief Constable Eugène-François Vidocq is born in Arras, France.
1875 (-) Inventor Isaac Merritt Singer dies of heart failure at the age of 63 in Pittstown, New York, USA.
1885 (-) 18th president of the USA Ulysses Simpson Hiram Grant dies of throat cancer at the age of 63 in Mount McGregor, New York, USA.
1888 (+) Writer Raymond Thornton Chandler is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1892 (+) Emperor Haile Selassie originally Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge’ez aka The Lion of Juda, is born in Ejersa Goro, Harar, Ethiopia.
1900 (-) Black Elijah Clark is lynched on the spot where he just raped 13-year-old Susan Priest in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
1905 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinrich Struß is born in Egestorf, Germany.
1928 (+) Writer Hubert Jr. Selby is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1937 (-) Jean De Koven is killed by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, at the age of 24 in Paris, France.
1942 (+) Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, is born in Manchester, Gorton, United Kingdom.
1943 (-) Archibald Brown is blown to pieces by Eric Brown at the age of 47 in London, United Kingdom.Eric places a Hawkins No 75 Grenade mine under Archibald’s wheelchair.
1948 (-) Pioneer filmmaker David Wark Llewelyn Griffith dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 73 in Hollywood, California, USA.
1951 (-) Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain dies at the age of 95 in a prison on Ile d’Yeu, Vendé, France.
1954 (+) Stripper, performance artist and sex educator Annie Sprinkle originally Ellen F. Steinberg, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1957 (+) Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh is born in The Hague, the Netherlands.
1958 (-) Ruth Mercado is abducted, assaulted and garotted by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 24 in Los Angeles, West Pico Boulevard, California, USA.
1958 (-) Murderer Abraham Thomas is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.

1966 (-) Actor Montgomery ‘Monty’ Clift dies of a heart attack due to an alcohol and drug overdose at the age of 45 in New York City, New York, USA.
1968 (-) Norma Vaillancourt is strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, at the age of 21 in Montreal, Canada.
1969 (-) Karen Beineman is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 18 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
1973 (+) White House intern Monica Samille Lewinsky aka The Woman With Whom President Bill Clinton Did Not Have Sexual Relations, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
1975 (x) 41-year-old Mass-murderer James Urban Ruppert has a review of his trial, his 11 life terms for shooting his entire family are reduced to 2 in Ohio, USA.
1975 (-) Renée McGowan is strangled by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Bradford, United Kingdom.
1979 (-) Writer Joseph Kessel known for ‘Belle de Jour’, dies at the age of 81 in Avernes, Val d'Oise, France.
1981 (-) Raymond King is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 15 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
1989 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer and cannibal Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, is arrested in Hachioji, Japan.
1997 (-) Serial Killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 27 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
Since killing Fashion designer Gianni Versace, he had been hunted down by the FBI.
2002 (-) Writer and Rabbi Chaim Herman Harold Potok dies of brain cancer at the age of 73 in Merion, Pennsylvania, USA.
2003 (-) Murderer Cedric Lamont Ransom is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

1676 (-) 239th Pope Clementius X originally Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, dies of gout at the age of 86 in Rome, Italy.
1844 (+) Oxford don William Archibald Spooner known for Spoonerism, is born in London, Grosvenor Place, 17 Chapel Street, United Kingdom.
1882 (+) Artist Edward Hopper is born in Nyack, New York, USA.
1889 (+) Horror filmmaker James Whale is born in Dudley, United Kingdom.
1893 (+) Psychiatrist Karl Augustus Menninger is born in Topeka, Kansas, USA.
1898 (+) Artist Alexander Calder is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1933 (x) 34-year-old Airplane pioneer Wiley Hardeman Post becomes the first man to fly around the world from New York to Moscow and Alaska in an airplane.
1934 (-) Bankrobber and outlaw John Herbert Dillinger is supposedly shot dead by Melvin Purvis at the age of 31 in Chicago, outside the Biograph Theatre, Illinois, USA.
Rumour are that the dead man was John Lawrence, a stand in for the left-without-a-trace Dillinger.
1936 (x) A decapitated body is found as third victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Clinton Road, Ohio, USA.
1939 (+) Actor Terence Stamp is born in Stepney, United Kingdom.
1946 (x) 90 Die in King David Hotel bomb-attack in Jerusalem, Palestina.
The attack was claimed by the Zionist militiant orgaisation Irgun.
1962 (+) Music producer Steve Albini is born in Pasadena, California, USA.
1964 (-) Danuta Maciejowicz is strangled and mutilated by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 17 in Olsztyn, Poland.
1964 (-) Elly Hager-Segov is strangled and her throat cut by Hans Van Zon in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1965 (-) Jadwiga Z. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 45 in Sosnowiec-Sroda, Poland.
1973 (x) 78 Die in Panam Boeing 707 crash in Tahiti.
1973 (-) Nancy Feusi is presumably killed by Zodiac in California, USA.
1973 (+) Cop Killer Ronald Ray Howard is born in Texas, USA.
1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 1" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.
1986 (-) Florence Tisdall is strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 80 in London, Putney, Ranelagh Gardens Mansions, United Kingdom.
1991 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
1991 (-) Tracy Edwards is abducted by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
He manages to escape and alert the police. Upon a thorough search of Dahmer’s apartment reveals various plastic bags filled with meat, 3 male torsos, severed hands, 11 heads and skulls, a human heart, male genital organs and various internal organs.
1995 (x) Start of the trial against 28-year-old Serial Killer Ali Reza Khoshruy Kuran Kordiyeh aka The Tehran Vampire, in Teheran, Iran.
1998 (x) Serial Killer Heriberto Seda aka The NY Zodiac Killer, is sentenced to 83 1/3 years to life in prison for killing three people and attempting to kill a fourth in New York, Queens, New York, USA.

2006 (x) 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "He Just Wanted to Play in his Bath Tube and Put a Finger in his Ass" in Berlin, Vilma Gold Gallery, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.

Saturday, July 21, 2012

1414 (+) 212th Pope Sixtus IV originally Francesco della Rovere, is born in Celle Ligure, Italy.
1816 (+) Journalist and founder of the Reuters news agency Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter aka Joseph Josephat, is born in Kassel, Germany.
1831 (x) 40-year-old King of Belgium Leopold I originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld, is inaugurated as first King of the Belgians in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
1873 (x) 25-year-old Outlaw Jesse Woodson James performs the first train robbery in Adair, Iowa, USA.
1898 (+) Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway is born in Chicago, Oak Park, Illinois, USA.
1904 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, France.
1911 (+) Philosopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan is born in Edmonton, Alta, Canada.
1922 (+) Actress Mollie Isabel Mary Sugden aka Mrs. Slocombe in “Are You Being Served?”, is born in Keighley, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
1926 (+) Filmmaker Norman Frederick Jewison is born in Toronto, Canada.
1928 (x) 58-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested for grand larceny in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1929 (-) Maria Maas is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 25 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
1944 (-) Graff Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Berlin, Germany.
1948 (+) Musician Cat Stevens originally Steven Demetre Georgiou now Yusuf Islam, is born in London, United Kingdom.
1948 (-) Artist Arshile Gorky originally Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 44 in Sherman, Connecticut, USA.
He had undergone a cancer operation and was involved in a car crash in which he broke his neck. His wife left him and several of his works of art were destroyed in a fire.

1969 (x) 38-year-old Astronaut Neil Armstrong aka The First Man to Walk on the Moon, makes his first "giant step for mankind".
1972 (x) 11 Die and over 130 are wounded in 26 simultaneous IRA bomb-attacks on this "Bloody Friday" in Belfast, Ireland.
1972 (-) Cop Killer Misao Katagiri is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Tokyo, Japan.
1973 (-) Weirdo Albert Brust commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 44 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
In his house the police found a wide variety of pornography and torture-devices, as well as the walled-in body of 16-year-old Mark Matson.
1975 (-) Ann Arceneaux is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, at the age of 16 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA.
1976 (-) British ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs is blown up by an IRA bomb at the age of 54 in Dublin, Ireland.
1976 (x) 35-year-old Spree Killer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, is arrested in Utah, USA.
1977 (-) Photographer Lee Elizabeth Miller aka Lady Penrose, dies of cancer at the age of 70 in Chiddingly, Farley Farm House, East Sussex, United Kingdom.
1979 (-) Eddy Smith is killed by Wayne Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, at the age of 14 in Atlanta, USA.
1996 (-) Martine Bohn is presumably abducted as second victim by Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, at the age of 33 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.
Her breastless torso was found a couple of days later in the river La Hayne, her legs and arms in March 1997.
1999 (-) Mass Murderer Zhao Lianrong is executed by a shot in the head at the age of 37 in Bejing, China.

Friday, July 20, 2012

356bc (+) Military leader Alexander the Great is born in Pella, Macedonia, Greece.
985 (-) AntiPope Bonifacius VII originally Franco Ferrucci, dies in Rome, Italy.
Probably murdered, his naked body was dragged through the streets and left beneath a statue of Marcus Aurelius.
1304 (+) Poet Francesco Petrarca aka The Father of Humanism, is born in Arezzo, Italy.
1519 (+) 230th Pope Innocentus IX originally Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, is born in Bologna, Italy.
1822 (+) Biologist Gregor Johann Mendel is born in Heinzendorf, Moravia, Czechoslowakia.
1890 (+) King of the Hellenes George II is born in Tatoi Palace, Greece.
1895 (+) Artist and designer Laszlo Moholo-Nagy is born in Borsod, Hungary.
1903 (-) 256th Pope Leo XIII dies at the age of 93 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
He was the oldest Pope ever.
1919 (+) Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary is born in Tuakau, New Zealand.
1923 (-) Revolutionary leader Pancho Francisco Villa originally Doroteo Arango Arambula, is shot to pieces in a fusillade at the age of 45 in Parral, Mexico.
1925 (+) Revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Omar Fanon is born in Martinique.
1932 (+) Video Artist Nam June Paik is born in Seoul, Korea.
1934 (-) Murderer Alfred William Bayly is executed by hanging in Auckland, New Zealand.
1934 (x) The SS is settled as official NAZI-organisation by Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany.
1937 (-) Inventor Guglielmo Marchese Marconi dies of overwork at the age of 63 in Rome, Italy.
1938 (+) Actress Natalie Wood originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko later Gurdin, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
1938 (+) Actress Diana Rigg is born in Doncaster, United Kingdom.
1944 (x) Under the codename ‘Operation Walkure’, 36-year-old Graff Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg places a bomb in the Fuhrer’s headquarters in Berlin, Germany.
1944 (+) Triple Murderer Allen Lee Davis aka Tiny, is born in Florida, USA.
1945 (-) Poet Paul Ambroise Toussaint Jules Valéry dies at the age of 73 in Paris, France.
1946 (+) Serial Killer Leonard Lake aka The Eye of Evil, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
1947 (+) Musician Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is born in Autlan de Navarro, Mexico.
1964 (x) 43-year-old Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys is punched in the face by Uwe Schilling during a performance on the Festival Der Neuen Kunst in Aachen, Germany.
1969 (x) Apollo 11 lands on the Moon .
1970 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
1973 (-) Actor, filmmaker and King of Kung Fu Bruce Lee Siu Loong originally Lee Yuen Kam, aka The Little Dragon, dies of a cerebral edema at the age of 32 in Hong Kong.
His brain had swollen considerably from 1400 to 1575 grams.

1973 (-) Land Artist Robert Smithson dies in a plane crash, while surveying sites for his work "Amarillo Ramp" at the age of 35 in Texas, USA.
1974 (x) Mass Murderess Shirley Marie Curry kills all her children, their father, her former sister-in-law and injures her former brother-in-law in Lowell, Arkansas, USA.
1976 (x) The Viking I lands on Mars .
1976 (-) Bennie Bushnell is shot dead by Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, in Provo, Utah, USA.
1977 (x) Members of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion, Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Hanna Krabbe, Bernd Rössner and Lutz Taufer are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm in Germany.
1982 (x) 11 Soldiers die in two bomb attacks by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army in London, Hyde Park and Regents Park, United Kingdom.
1984 (x) 28-year-old Spree Killer Alton Coleman and his accomplice Debra Brown are arrested in Waukegan, Illinois, USA.
1985 (-) Maxson Kneiding is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 66 in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, USA.
1985 (-) Chainarong Khovananth is raped and shot by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 32 in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, USA.
1986 (-) William Downs is sexually assaulted and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 74 in London, Stockwell, Overton Road Estate, United Kingdom.
2006 (-) Child kidnapper and murderer Robert Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2011 (-) Murderer Mark Anthony Stroman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

64 (x) Eruption of The Great Fire in Rome, Circus Maximus, Italy.
Four districts are completely destroyed and seven severely damaged.
1610 (-) Artist Michelangelo Merisi di Caravaggio dies of a fever attack at the age of 38 in Port d’Ercole, Tuscany, Italy.
1817 (-) Writer Jane Austen dies of tuberculosis at the age of 41 in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
1871 (+) Artist Giacomo Balla is born in Torino, Italy.
1895 (+) Gangster George R Barnes Kelley aka Machine Gun Kelly, is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
1908 (+) Actress Lupe Maria Guadelupe Villalobos Vélez is born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
1909 (+) Soviet leader Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko is born in Starye Gromyki, Russia.
1918 (+) Political activist Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is born in Mvezo, Mthatha, South Africa.
1921 (+) Astronaut John Herschel Glenn is born in Cambridge, Ohio, USA.
1922 (-) Henry McMahon is beaten to death with a rock by Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, at the age of 12 in Salem, Massachussets, USA.
1925 (x) 36-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler publishes part I of "Mein Kampf" in München, Germany.
1929 (+) Musician Jalacy Hawkins aka Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1934 (+) Actress Darlene Conley aka Sally Spectra, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1935 (+) Artist Ben Vautier is born in Naples, Italy.
1937 (+) Writer Hunter Stockton Thompson aka the creator of Gonzo journalism, is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
1941 (+) Lead singer of the Vandellas Martha Rose Reeves is born in Eufala, Alabama, USA.
1951 (-) Rape-murderer Harold Thomas Lantz is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1954 (-) Gangster George R Barnes Kelley aka Machine Gun Kelly, dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, USA.
1969 (-) Mary Jo Kopechne drowned at the age of 28 in Chappaquiddick Island, Massachussets, USA.
After a party for the "Boiler Room Girls", Senator Edward Kennedy drove her home but his 1967 Oldsmobile Belmont 88 car ended up Poucha Pound; Kennedy managed to escape, Kopechne didn't.
1981 (-) Police inspector Jacques Massie and his family are executed by a terrorist commando in Auriol, France.
1981 (-) Richard Adam is stabbed in the heart by Jack Henry Abbott known for The Belly of the Beast, at the age of 22 in New York, Bini Bon Diner Club, New York, USA.Abbott had been paroled due to his literary talent.
1984 (-) Mass Murderer James Oliver Huberty aka Hunting Humans, is shot dead by the police at the age of 41 in San Diego, San Ysidro, California, USA.
He killed 21 and injured 15 people in a 77min shooting rage in a McDonalds’ restaurant.

1988 (-) Musician and Femme Fatale Christa Paffgen aka Nico, dies of trombosis at the age of 48 in Ibiza, Spain.
1989 (-) Actress Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer is shot dead by 19-year-old stalker Robert John Bardo at the age of 21 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1990 (-) Murderer Mikel Derrick is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1990 (-) Psychiatrist Karl Augustus Menninger dies at the age of 97 in Topeka, Kansas, USA.
1994 (x) 85 Die in Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina building bomb-attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1996 (-) Murderer Tommie Smith is executed by lethal injection in Indiana, USA.
The executioner could not find a vein in Smith's arm and had to insert an angio-catheter into his heart, a procedure that took 35 minutes. According to authorities, Smith remained conscious during that procedure.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

1793 (-) Murderess of Jean-Paul Marat, Charlotte Corday is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 24 in Paris, France.
1816 (x) The French passenger vessel "Medusa" is wrecked off the coast in Senegal.
1889 (+) Writer Erle Stanley Gardner is born in Malden, Massachussets, USA.
1899 (+) Actor James Francis Cagney is born in New York, New York, USA.
1901 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Friedel Rothe is born in Hannover, Germany.
1918 (-) Last Tsar of Russia and Grand Duke of Finland Nikolaus II and his family are stabbed with bayonets and executed with a shot through the head at the age of 50 in Jkaterinaburg, Ipatiev House, Russia.
1928 (-) General Alvaro Obregon is shot dead by 26-year-old José De Leon Toral at the age of 48 in San Angel, Mexico.
He was just elected for a second term as president.
1934 (+) Actor Donald Sutherland is born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada.
1942 (-) Greta Kneller is presumably killed by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, France.
1944 (x) 322 Die in ammunition-stock explosion in Port Chicago, California, USA.
1945 (+) Victim of Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, Eileen Marie Hunley is born in Minnesota, USA.
1946 (-) An unidentified woman is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, in Walkenried, Germany.
1946 (+) Singer Demis Artemios Ventouris Roussos is born in Alexandria, Egypt.
1947 (x) 630 Die in ferry shipwreck in Bombay, India.
1954 (-) Presumed murderess of President Felix Faure, Marguerite “Meg” Jeanne Japy-Steinheil aka Lady Abinger aka Mme de Serignac, dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Hove, United Kingdom.
1955 (x) 53-year-old Filmmaker Walt Walter Elias Disney opens the first Disneyland attraction park in Anaheim, California, USA.
1958 (-) King Feisal II and his entire family are assassinated during a military coup in Bagdad, Royal Palace, Iraq.
1958 (+) Filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai is born in Shanghai, China.

1959 (-) Musician Billie Holiday originally Eleanora Fagan aka Lady Day, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 44 in New York, Metropolitan Hospital, New York, USA.
She died under police guard on charges of possession of drugs.
1968 (+) Serial Killer Yang Xinhai is born in China.
1971 (x) 46-year-old Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, is arrested in St. Helier, Jersey.
1973 (-) Homer Garcia is killed by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, the Heights, Texas, USA.
1975 (x) Apollo and Soyoez join in Space.
1975 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Honka is arrested in Hamburg-Ottensen, Zeißstrasse 74, Germany.
After a fire in the apartment below his attic flat, the police found bodyparts of 4 women.
1977 (x) The villa of 78-year-old War criminal and art collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten is burned to the ground by persons unknown in Blaricum, the Netherlands.
1981 (x) 114 Die in Hyatt Regency Hotel Walkway collapse in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
1996 (-) War-criminal Paul Touvier dies of prostate cancer at the age of 81 in Paris, prison-hospital of Fresnes, France.
1996 (x) 230 Die in TWA flight 800 Boeing 747 explosion in Long Island, New York, USA.
2003 (x) After spending 38 years behind bars 62-year-old Serial Killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, appeals for a release from prison in Regensburg, Germany.
It is denied.
2006 (-) Writer Mickey Frank Morrison Spillane dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 88 in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, USA.
2007 (x) Over 200 Die in TAM flight 3054 Airbus 320 crash in Sao Paulo, Conhongas Airport, Brazil.
The plane skidded off the tarmac into a petrol station.
2009 (-) CBS Anchorman Walter Leland Cronkite dies of cerebrovascular disease at the age of 92 in New York, New York, USA.

Monday, July 16, 2012

1557 (-) Fourth wife of Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves dies at the age of 41 in London, United Kingdom.
She was the last of Henry's six wives to die.
1872 (+) Explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen is born in Borge, Norway.
1907 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Leonardo Gebbia is executed by hanging in Hahnville, Louisiana, USA.
1911 (+) Actress Ginger Rogers originally Virginia McMath, is born in Independance, Montana, USA.
1929 (+) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is born in Mound City, Missouri, USA.
1933 (-) Black James Sanders is lynched for writing obscene letters to a white girl at the age of 25 in Bolton, Missouri, USA.
1936 (-) Murderess Mary Creighton is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
1936 (-) Murderer Everett Applegate is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
1941 (+) Musician Desmond Adolphus Dekker originally Dacres, is born in Kingston, St. Andrew, Jamaïca.
1942 (-) Kurt Kneller is presumably killed by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, rue Lesueur, France.
1945 (x) First plutonium test bomb explosion in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
1951 (x) The novel "The Catcher in the Rye" by 32-year-old Writer Jerome David Salinger is published by Little, Brown and Company in New York, New York, USA.
1954 (-) Murderer Merle Williams Martin is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
1954 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong is born in Stuttgart, Germany.
1966 (x) 24-year-old Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, tries to commit suicide by slashing his wrists in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1974 (x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, is arrested and charged with a sex-assault in Hermies, France.
1981 (x) 52-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested as Richard Clark while abducting 11-year-old Todd Peers in Bettendorf, Iowa, USA.

1982 (-) Actor Patrick Dewaere commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 35 in Paris, 25, impasse du Moulin-Vert, France.
1985 (-) Writer Heinrich Theodor Böll dies at the age of 67 in Langenbroich, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1989 (-) Conductor Herbert Heribert Ritter Von Karajan dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 in Salzburg, Anif, Austria.
2004 (x) Over 90 children Die in private school fire in Kumbakonam, India.
2010 (x) A High Court decides that 64-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, will never be released from prison during his lifetime in Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
He was given 20 life terms in 1981 for thirteen murders and seven other attacks. In prison he changed his name to Peter Coonan.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

1381 (-) Priest and Peasants’ Revolt leader John Ball is executed by hanging, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II at the age of 43 in London, United Kingdom.
His head was subsequently stuck on a pike on London Bridge.
1606 (+) Artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn is born in Leiden, the Netherlands.
1881 (-) Willem De Hees is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in the Netherlands.
1883 (-) Dwarf Charles Sherwood Stratton aka General Tom Thumb, dies of a stroke at the age of 45 in Connecticut, USA.
1892 (+) Philiospher Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin is born in Berlin, Germany.
1904 (-) Writer Anton Pavlovitsch Chekhov dies of tuberculosis at the age of 44 in Badenweiler, Germany.
1919 (+) Writer Iris Murdoch is born in Dublin, Ireland.
1924 (-) Francis McDonnel is sexually assaulted and strangled by Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, at the age of 7 in Staten Island, Charlton’s Woods, New York, USA.
1929 (-) Writer Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal dies of a stroke at the age of 55 in Vienna, Rodaun, Austria.
1930 (+) Philosopher Jacques Derrida aka The Father of Deconstructionism, is born in El-Biar, Algeria.
1936 (-) Husband Murderess Charlotte Bryant is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Exeter Prison, United Kingdom.
1940 (+) Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1945 (-) Lloyd Gomez is briefly abducted by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, in Boulder, Sunshine Canyon, Colorado, USA.
He tied her up, they spent the night together in his car, and he let her go the next day. He was identified almost instantly.
1946 (+) Musician Linda Ronstadt is born in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
1952 (+) New York Doll Johnny Thunders originally John Anthony Genzale Jr., is born in New York, Queens, New York, USA.
1953 (-) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1956 (+) Musician Ian Kevin Curtis from Joy Division, is born in Stretford, Manchester, Old Trafford Memorial Hospital, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
1956 (+) Punk Rocker Marky Ramone originally Marc Steven Bell, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1957 (x) 58 Die in KLM Super Constellation crash in Biak, New Guinea.
1958 (-) Julia Lennon (John’s mom), is knocked down by a Standard Vanguard car driven by learner-driver PC Eric Clague at the age of 44 in Liverpool, Menlowe Avenue, United Kingdom.
Her body landed about 100 feet from where she'd been hit.
1969 (x) The German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion burglarize government headquarters and steal a number of official documents in München, Bavaria, Germany.
1971 (-) Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Petra Schelm is shot dead by the police in a road-block at the age of 20 in Hamburg, Reineckestrasse, Germany.
She was the first RAF member to die in the Stadtguerilla.
1971 (+) Murderer Ponchai “Kamau” Wilkerson is born in Houston, Texas, USA.
1971 (x) 46-year-old Artist Jean Tinguely marries artist Niki de Saint Phalle in Paris, France.
1973 (-) Caroline Davis is presumably strychnine-poisoned by Zodiac at the age of 15 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
1974 (-) Television reporter Christine Chubbuck commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 29 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.
She was doing a live newscast during her Suncoast Digest show and said "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide" and shot herself behind the left ear.
1979 (x) 130 whales commit suicide by hitting the coast in Newfoundland.
1990 (x) 31-year-old Murderess Laurie Lawrencia Bembenek aka Bambi, escapes from prison with the help of her fiancé Nick Gugliatto in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Her escape ignited the slogan "Run, Bambi, Run".
1991 (-) Oliver Lacy is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 24 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
Earlier that day Dahmer was fired from his job at the Ambrosia Chocolate Co. for chronic absenteism.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

1789 (x) The storming of the Bastille to release 7 prisoners marks the beginning of the French Revolution in Paris, France.
Ten days earlier the Marquis de Sade had been transferred from the Bastille to an asylum in Charenton.
1817 (-) Writer Germaine Anne Louise de Staël originally Germaine Necker aka Madame, dies at the age of 51 in Paris, France.
1862 (+) Artist Gustav Klimt is born in Vienna, Baumgarten, Austria.
1868 (+) Writer, traveler and political analyst Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell aka The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq, is born in Washington Hall, Durham, United Kingdom.
1875 (+) Womanizer and reverend Harold Francis Davidson aka The Prostitutes’ Padre, is born in Southampton, United Kingdom.
1881 (-) Outlaw Billy the Kid originally Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Harrison Bonney, is shot dead by Pat Garret at the age of 21 in Fort Summer, New Mexico, USA.
1881 (-) Daniel Stott is poisoned by Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, in Garden Prairie, Illinois, USA.
1890 (+) Artist Ossip Zadkine is born in Vitebsk, Belarus.
1903 (-) Womanizer and murderer Samuel Herbert Dougal is executed by hanging in Chelmsford Prison, United Kingdom.
1903 (-) Black rapist Ed Claus is lynched by hanging in Eastman, Georgia, USA.
1904 (+) Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer is born in Rapzymin, Poland.
1912 (+) Singer-songwriter Woody Woodrow Wilson Guthrie is born in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA.
1913 (+) 38th president of the USA Gerald Rudolph Ford is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
1914 (-) Black thief James Bailey is lynched by hanging for stealing 3 mules in Lake Cormorant, Missouri, USA.
1918 (+) Filmmaker Ingmar Ernst Bergmann is born in Uppsala, Sweden.
1919 (+) Actor Lino Angiolino Joseph Pascal Ventura is born in Parma, Italy.
1926 (+) Actor Harry Dean Stanton is born in West Irvine, Kentucky, USA.
1933 (x) Every millionaire in the city is placed under 24-hour surveillance because of a kidnap-epidemic throughout the nation in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1933 (-) Murderer Albert Fuller is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, USA.
1957 (x) 270 Die in USSR Eshghabad shipwreck in the Caspian Sea.
1960 (x) 83-year-old Presumed murderer of the Drummond family, Gaston Dominici is released from Prison de Baumettes in Marseille, France.
1964 (-) Mary Fleming aka Mary Turner, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 30 in London, United Kingdom.

1966 (x) 21-year-old Gloria Davy, 20-year-old Pamela Wilkening, 20-year-old Mary Ann Jordan, 21-year-old Suzanne Farris, 24-year-old Nina Schmale, 23-year-old Valentina Pasion, 22-year-old Marlita Gargullo and 20-year-old Patricia Matusek are raped and killed by 24-year-old Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, in Chicago, South Community Hospital, Illinois, USA.Corazon Amurao hid under a bed and escaped the massacre, she identified Speck due to the “Born to Raise Hell” tattoo on his forearm.
1966 (x) 225 Die in mental hospital fire in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
1970 (x) Cannibal Dean Stanley Baker is arrested carrying in his pocket the fingers of a man he killed, cut out the heart and ate it in Yellowstone Park, California, USA.
1974 (-) Janice Ott is strangled and bludgeoned to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 23 in Lake Sammanish, Washington, USA.
1975 (x) 41-year-old Mass-murderer James Urban Ruppert is sentenced to 11 life-sentences for the murders of 11 members of his family in Hamilton, Ohio, USA.
1981 (-) 8-month-old Jennifer Daniels is smothered by Christine Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, in Perry, Florida, USA.
1983 (-) Graeme Cunningham is abducted and killed by Arthur Bishop at the age of 13 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
1988 (-) Jewgeni Muratow is stabbed to death and his tongue bitten off by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Rostow, Russia.
1989 (-) Mentally deranged murderer Horace Franklin Dunkins is executed by Old Sparky in Atmore, Alabama, USA.
The first blow just rendered him unconscious, the second one was administered only 9 minutes later due to a lack of power, he was pronounced dead 19 minutes after the first jolt.
1991 (-) Barbara Jacobs is found strangled by Joel Rifkin at the age of 32 in New York, Hudson River near West Tenth Street, New York, USA.
1999 (-) Mass Murderer Cyrano Marks commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 39 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
He first killed his girlfriend and four of her five children, and her sister.

Friday, July 13, 2012

100bc (+) Emperor of Rome Julius Caesar is born in Rome, Italy.
939 (-) 126th Pope Leo VII dies in Rome, Italy.
1249 (x) 7-year-old King of Scotland Alexander III is crowned in Scone, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1527 (+) Astronomer and occultist John Dee is born in London, England.
1590 (+) 239th Pope Clementius X originally Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, is born in Rome, Italy.
1793 (-) Activist in the French Revolution Jean-Paul Marat is stabbed to death in his bath by 24-year-old Charlotte Corday at the age of 50 in Paris, France.
He spent most of the time of his last three years in his bath due to dermatitis herpetiformes.
1796 (x) First public execution by the Guillotine in Brussels, Grand Place, Brabant, Belgium.
1807 (-) Murderer Richard Faulkner is executed by hanging at the age of 15 in Norfolk, Whittlesea, United Kingdom.
1906 (-) Murderer George W. Lauth is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.
1912 (-) Beatrice Mundy aka Bessie, is drowned by George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, at the age of 33 in Weymouth, Herne Bay, United Kingdom.
1934 (-) Murderer George J. Shaughnessy is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 19 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1936 (x) Start of the trial against 27-year-old Serial Killer and leader of the Sala Gang Sigvard Sven Emil Nilsson Thurneman aka The Doctor, and gang members Eric Hedström, Roland Abrahamsson, Herbert Jansson and Åke Lindberg in Västerås, Sweden.
1944 (+) Inventor Erno Rubik is born in Budapest, Hungary.
1946 (+) Actor Cheech Richard Marin from Cheech and Chong, is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1949 (x) 73-year-old 260th Pope Pius XII declares all catholic communists excommunicated in Rome, Italy.
1951 (-) Composer Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg dies of heart failure at the age of 76 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He had spent the whole day in bed suffering from triskaidekaphobia.
1954 (-) Artist Frida Kahlo originally Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, dies of embolism at the age of 47 in The Blue House, Mexico City, Mexico.
She attempted suicide a couple of times, but no official autopsy was done. The last words in her diary were "I hope the leaving is joyful and I hope never to return".
1955 (-) Murderess Ruth Neilson Ellis is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.
She was the last woman executed in the UK.
1961 (x) 81 Die in CSA Airlines Iljoesjin-18 crash in Casablanca, Morocco.
1964 (x) 20 die after eating poisoned ‘Kolyva’ bread at a funeral in Stylia, Greece.
1967 (-) Cyclist Tom Simpson drops dead due to the lethal combination of drugs, exhaustion and heat in the Tour de France cyclist rally at the age of 29 in Mont Ventoux, Vaucluse, France.
1973 (-) Nancy Gidley is presumably strangled by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.
1976 (-) SS-Oberst Joachim Peiper of the Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler , is shot dead and his house burned down by a terrorist group known as ‘Les Vengeurs’ at the age of 61 in Traves, Haute Saone, France.
1981 (-) IRA-member Martin Edward Hurson originally Mairtin O hUrsain, dies of dehydration after 46 days of hungerstriking at the age of 24 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the sixth to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
1981 (-) Judy Kozma is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 14 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
1984 (-) Marlene Walters is beaten to death by Alton Coleman at the age of 44 in Norwood, Ohio, USA.
Her husband, Harry Walters, was beaten into a coma that left him with permanent brain damage.
1986 (-) Designer of coke-bottles and greyhound-buses, Raymond Ferdinand Loewy dies at the age of 92 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

1986 (-) Artist, writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin dies of cancer of the large intestine at the age of 70 in Paris, France.
1998 (-) Rapist and murderer Thomas Martin Thompson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
1999 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Angel Leoncio Reyes Maturino Reséndiz aka The Railway Killer, turns himself in to Immigration and Naturalization Services officials in El Paso, Texas, USA.
He was being hunted down by the FBI for over a month.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

1536 (-) Humanist Desiderius Roterodamus Erasmus originally Gerrit Gerritszoon, dies of dysentery at the age of 69 in Basel, Switzerland.
1543 (x) 52-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his sixth wife Catherine Parr in Hampton Court Palace, United Kingdom.
1817 (+) Writer and pacifist Henry David Thoreau is born in Concord, Massachussets, USA.
1854 (+) Photography pioneer George Eastman is born in Waterville, New York, USA.
1880 (+) Filmmaker Tod Charles Albert Browning is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
1882 (-) Composer Alfred Humphreys Pease dies at the age of 44 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
1884 (+) Artist Amadeo Clemente Modigliani is born in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.
1904 (+) Poet Pablo Neruda originally Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, is born in Parral, Chili.
1918 (x) 621 Die in Japanese Imperial Navy Kawachi destroyer explosion in Shunan, Honshu, Japan.
1926 (-) Writer, traveler and political analyst Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell aka The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 58 in Baghdad, Iraq.

1935 (-) French-Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus dies at the age of 75 in Paris, France.
1937 (+) Actor Bill William Henry Cosby is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1951 (+) Actress Cheryl Ladd originally Cheryl Stoppelmoor, is born in Huron, South Dakota, USA.
1958 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, attacks and rapes an unidentified 31-year-old woman in La Rozelle, Jersey.
1963 (-) Pauline Reade is abducted and her head smashed with a shovel by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 16 in Gorton, United Kingdom.
On 2 july 1987 Ian Brady returned to the Moors where he pinpointed her grave.
1969 (-) Maria Hettgen is throttled and raped by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 61 in Essen, Werden, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1971 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is indicted with a 25 murder count in Yuba City, California, USA.
1979 (-) Supreme Maffia-boss Carmine Galante aka Lillo the Cigar, is shot dead while eating spaghetti in an Italian restaurant at the age of 69 in New York, New York, USA.
1979 (x) Over 80 Die in Corona de Aragon hotel fire in Zaragossa, Spain.
1986 (-) Trevor Thomas is strangled in his bath by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 75 in London, Clapham, Jefferys Road, Barton Court, United Kingdom.
1989 (x) 31-year-old Spree Killer Christian Dornier shoots 14 people, including his mother and sister, to death in Luxiol, France.
He is found badly injured in a head-on car collision.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

1767 (+) 5th president of the USA John Quincy Adams is born in Braintree, Quincy, Massachussets, USA.
As son of the 2nd president of the USA, John Adams.
1851 (+) Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McCoy aka The Two-Headed Nightingale, is born in Whiteville, North Carolina, USA.
1862 (-) Murderer John Bell is executed by hanging in Iola, Kansas, USA.
1920 (+) Actor Yul Yuliy Borisovich Brynner is born in Vladivostok, Russia.
1929 (-) Maria Witt is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
1934 (+) Fashion designer Giorgio Armani is born in Piacenza, Emilia Romagna, Italy.

1937 (-) Composer George Gershwin dies of a brain tumour at the age of 38 in Hollywood, California, USA.
1957 (+) IRA-member Patrick Patsy O’Hara originally Padraig or Peatsai O hEadra, is born in Derry, Ireland.
1958 (-) Serial Killer Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Glasgow, Barlinnie Prison, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1966 (-) Poet Delmore Schwartz aka The European Son, dies of alcohol abuse and insanity at the age of 52 in New York, Hotel Marlon, New York, USA.
His body was found two days later by the hotel management.
1973 (x) 122 Die in Brazilian Varig Boeing 707 crash in Orly Airport, France.
12 people survived the crash.
1978 (x) Over 250 Die in Los Alfaques camping fire in San Carlo de la Rapita, Tarragona, Spain.
1979 (x) The abandoned space station Skylab returns to earth in debris in Rawlinna and Esperance, Western Australia, Australia.
It had been in a 'parking orbit' for almost 6 years.
1979 (-) Serial Killer and leader of the Sala Gang Sigvard Sven Emil Nilsson Thurneman aka The Doctor, dies at the age of 70 in Bromma, Sweden.
1982 (x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, is released from prison in Valence, France.
1983 (x) 119 Die in Boeing 727 crash in Cuenca, Ecuador.
1986 (-) Test-pilot Ross Mulhare crashes with a top-secret F-19 Stealth Fighter plane in Bakersfield, California, USA.
1989 (-) Actor and filmmaker Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier dies of cancer at the age of 82 in Steyning, Sussex, United Kingdom.
1991 (x) 261 Die in Canadian Nationair D- 8 crash in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The plane carried pilgrims on their way to the Hajj and made an emergency landing.
1997 (x) 91 Die in Royal Jomtien Hotel fire in Pattaya, Thailand.
17-year-old kitchen helper Khayan Kasien confessed to causing a gas leak that sparked the blaze. He said that he removed a hose from a kitchen gas cylinder without turning the valve off beforehand.
2001 (-) Double Murderer James Joseph Jr. Wilkens is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2001 (-) Musician Herman Brood commits suicide by jumping off the roof of the Hilton Hotel at the age of 54 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2006 (-) Double murderer Derrick Sean O’Brien is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2006 (x) 209 Die in Suburban Railway bomb-attack by Islamic terrorists in Mumbai, India.
Seven bombs
2011 (x) 110 Die in MS Bulgaria cruiser sinking in Koeibisjev Lake, Tatarstan, Russia.